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TIL that the CEO of LifeLock, who regularly gives out his Social Security number in LifeLock advertisements, has had his identity stolen thirteen times.

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KOxM6 TIL a tiny knee bone called the Fabella disappeared from humans millions of years ago due to evolution. However, it has been reappearing in some people for the past century. It's function is unknown but it has been linked to knee pain.
BRGd TIL that the first rap song to top #1 on the Billboard charts was Blondie’s “Rapture”, sung by Debbie Harry, a white female. It was also the first rap music video to appear on MTV.
oBnXA TIL After the assassination of Julius Caesar a large comet hit the Earths atmosphere, it was seen in Rome and China, and may have been brightest daylight comet in recorded history, it led to Caesar being Deified, an Imperial Cult, and the building of the ‘Temple of the Comet Star’.
LXEQ TIL that above the gates of the Buchenwald concentration camp were the words “Everyone gets what they deserve”. After the war the camp became a prison site for Nazis, and the words were not removed.
LJlP TIL The term Third World arose during the Cold War to define countries that remained non-aligned with either NATO, or the Communist Bloc.